from Beyond Good and Evil p.58
20 The Curse of [Grammar Individual concepts in philosophy are neither arbitrary nor spontaneous; they grow under interrelationships and kinship with other concepts. … This immediately explains the striking “familial similarities” between Indian, Greek, and German philosophy. … - familial resemblance Where there is an analogy of language, because the basic ideas of grammar are identical—which means that similar grammatical functions unconsciously dominate and guide the philosophical system is always developed and arranged in a similar way… Philosophers from the Ural-Altaic world (where the concept of subject is very late in development) will probably look at the world differently and take a different path than philosophers from the Indo-Germanic world or even Muslims. The curse of the function of a particular grammar is ultimately nothing more than a curse of physiological value judgments and race-specific conditions.
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